Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-05-19

A COLLISION which came near r0ouloAnS
seriously for both vessels, occurred on
Quarantine at New York the other night,
between tina Red Star steamer, Belgeniano,
from AsSwerp, and the tramp steamer.
| Hartlepool, from Middlesborough. Apanlc
occurred among the immigrants on the
Belgenland, but no lives were lost.
AT meeting of the members of the Rail
road Coal Association at Pittsburgh, "a,
| on the 18th, resolutions were adopted not
| to sell to Cleveland middlemen, and author
| izing the members to cut prices at any
| time and to undersell any contracts already
made. This means bitter war for con-
| tracts to lake ports.
THE municipal council of the Irish Ma
tional League, of Philadelphia, has decided
to boycott the Cunard steamers.
THE WEST.
A PARTY recently returned from Santa
| Catalina mountains in Arizona reports the
| CANYONS full of water, brought to the sur
face by the earthquake. This is great
| boom for this region as there are thou sands
of acres of good farming land at the base
of these mountains which only neeu water
| to make them valuable.
A FIRE starting in Coleman's livery stable
recently burned all the lower part OF Main
street, Minot, d. T., comprising half OF the
| town Thirty buildings were consumed.
Loss, $50, 900; no insurance.
THOMAS PATTERSON, coachman, has been
arrested in Cleveland, O., for an attempted
assault on Mary Odell and on suspicion OF
| having outraged and murdered Minnie NC
! Carthy about two weeks since.
| COLONEL BOLTON, a gallant officer OF the
| late war; has been sent to the penitentiary
at Joliet, ILL.,, for embeZzling large sums
while chief of the mailing department of
| the Chicago post-office.
ONE hundred and fifty dock hands on the
ore docks of the New York, Pennsylvania
& Ohio railroad at Cleveland o., recently
struck for an advance in pay from S1.25 to
| 81 80 per day.
THE Michigan House has passed bill
| making employers liable for damages for
accidents to employees caused by the negll-
gence of fellow employe or defects In ma
| chinery.
THE other evening at Fort Gibson, I. T.,
two soldiers, James Adams and D. T..
Gladon, were seining for fish in the Grand
river, when they were caught in swift
current and were swept under.
THE Union seed drill works of Selby,
Starr & Co., Peoria, Ill, burned the other
night. Total loss, 100000; insurance, SoO,-
600.
chief, Pasqual, was cremated near Yuma,
Ariz., the other day.
The Supreme Council of the Catholic
Knights of America was in secret session
in Chicago on the 10th.
w. B. TODHUNTER, the cattle owner OF
Sacramento, Cal, who owns 10000 acres
of land in Oregon and $4,000 in Nevada, has
assigned to Hayes, Carrack & Co., of Oak
land Cal His liabilities are $4,000.
THE condition of the Michigan wheat
crop is reported as excellent.
Two barb wire fence manufacturing
firms failed in Chicago on the 1Oth-Sher-
man q Marsh, 81 Dearborn street, with
liabilities estimated at $44S 600 and the as
sets at S256, 900. and Schnebel & Co.. next
door to Sherman q Marsh, making assign
ments to Noble B. Judah. The liabilities
of Schnebel & Co. are $303, 900 and the as
sets S1S3, 900.
AT Washington, Ind, recently James a.
Cunningham was given judgment against
the Evansville & Terre Haute Railway
Company for S92. 900 for the burning of his
starch factory at Vincennes by sparks from
locomotive.
THE strike of the employees of the Calu-
met iron and steel mills, Chicago, has been
declared off.
WALTER VRooMAN of Kansas City, Mo-,
socialist and editor of the Labor Organizer,
who was arrested in Allegheny City, Pa,
recently, was fined S25 for disorderly con-
duct.
AT Chicago on the 18th the long, stubborn
fight against T. j. Vail. secretary of the
National IroUtlng ASSOCIATION, was brought
to close, Vail sending his resignation to
the president CT the association.
THE Missouri Legislature convened in
special session at Jefferson City on the 11th
A LETTER from j. d. Garcia to a friend in
Tucson, Ariz., complains that he is held in
jail at Saharipa, Sonora, Mexico, be-
cause he refused to vote for the project re-
Gently.
TnE entire business part of Earlville Ia,
a town of 1000 inhabitants, thirty seven
miles west of Dubuque, was wiped out by
fire the other night. Twenty business
houses, fouy dwellings,, one church and sew
eral barns were destroyed. Loss, $4,000;
insurance, S53. 600.
The schooner Laura Madison, which ar
rived at Umpaqua, Ore. May 10, reports
seeing the ship Ocean King, On May 8,
eighty-fve miles west of Arago on fire and
abandoned. Nothing was known of the
crew.
THE American sugar refinery at San
Francisco recently sent 100000 pounds of
sugar to New York over the Canadian Pa
cifc.
THE SOUTH.
THE other morning, near Spring Station,
KY, on the farm of Captain James Black
burn, ex-Secretary of State and brother of
Senator j. c. S. Blackburn, Miss Henrietta
Blackburn. accompanied by her cousin,